Beyond Radical Islam Session 2 |
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Friday, April 16, 2004
2:00 PM
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Friday, April 16, 2004
4:30 PM
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| THE CENTER FOR ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD, in conjunction with THE LEFRAK FORUM/SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE, REASON AND MODERN DEMOCRACY, cordially invites you to a major three-day conference entitled: "Beyond Radical Islam?"Session 2: Political Islam Islamic movements exhibit a wide variety of forms, political programs, and identities. What are the major movements in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and how do they differ in their perceptions and diagnosis of the problems facing Muslims today? What policies should Western governments develop to address these Islamic movements? How can liberal and reformist movements be identified and encouraged? What are the likely consequences of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the larger relationship between the Muslim world and the West? THIS SESSION IS CHAIRED BY: Arthur Melzer A professor of Political Science, he is also Director of the LeFrak Symposium at Michigan State University. PAPER IS PROVIDED BY: Mohammed Ayoob Mr. Ayoob is a University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University. Before joining Michigan State University, he taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and the Australian National University. He has also held visiting appointments at Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Sydney, and Brown Universities and at Bilkent University in Turkey. He is the author of The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System, and has published numerous scholarly articles in professional journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Global Governance, Asian Survey, Orbis, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, International Journal, Washington Quarterly, and Middle East Policy. RESPONSES ARE PROVIDED BY: Hillel Fradkin A senior fellow at Hudson Institute and Director of the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Dr. Fradkin was the W.H. Brady, Jr. Fellow in Politics, Religion and Culture at the American Enterprise Institute before joining the Ethics and Public Policy Center as a senior fellow and director of its Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies programs. Prior to his work at AEI, Dr. Fradkin was a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he taught the history of political and religious thought (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) as well as other courses in political science. For the same period, he was vice president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Husain Haqqani The co-chair for the Islam and Democracy Project at Hudson Institute, as well as the director of the Center for International Relations and an associate professor at Boston University, Mr. Haqqani recently served as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Mr. Haqqani is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express and The Nation (of Pakistan) and serves as chairman of Communications Research Strategies, a Pakistani consulting company. Mr. Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Arab News. He regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic politics and extremism on BBC, CNN, NBC, and ABC. Mr. Haqqani has also served as an advisor to Pakistani prime ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka. A PDF version of the transcript is available here. Support for this conference has been provided by James Madison College and the Center for European and Russian Studies at Michigan State University. |
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